I think I can say that all birds are becoming scarcer in this state, as we have laws that do not protect, little enforcement of same, no revenue for bird protection and too little public interest.  We are working to change all this, but it comes slowly. The public fails to respond until the birds are ’most gone, and we have a pretty good lot of game still left.  The members of the Order Gallinae are only holding their own where privately protected.  The members of the Plover Family and what are known locally as shore birds are still plentiful on the shores of Chincoteague and Assateague, and although they do not breed there as formerly, so far as I know there are no species exterminated.—­(Talbott Denmead, Baltimore.)

MASSACHUSETTS: 

Wood-duck, hooded merganser, blue-winged teal, upland plover; curlew (perhaps already gone); red-tailed hawk (I have not seen one in Middlesex County for several years); great horned owl (almost gone in my county, Middlesex); house wren.  The eave swallows and purple martins are fast deserting eastern Massachusetts and the barn swallows steadily diminishing in numbers.  The bald eagle should perhaps be included here.  I seldom see or hear of it now.—­(William Brewster, Cambridge.)

Upland plover, woodcock, wood-duck (recent complete protection is helping these somewhat), heath hen, piping plover, golden plover, a good many song and insectivorous birds are apparently decreasing rather rapidly; for instance, the eave swallow.—­(William P. Wharton, Groton.)

MICHIGAN: 

Wood-duck, limicolae, woodcock, sandhill crane.  The great whooping crane is not a wild bird, but I think it is now practically extinct.  Many of our warblers and song birds are now exceedingly rare.  Ruffed grouse greatly decreased during the past 10 years.—­(W.B.  Mershon, Saginaw.)

MINNESOTA: 

The sandhill crane has been killed by sportsmen.  I have not seen one in three years.  Where there were, a few years ago, thousands of blue herons, egrets, wood ducks, redbirds, and Baltimore orioles, all those birds are now almost extinct in this state.  They are being killed by Austrians and Italians, who slaughter everything that flies or moves.  Robins, too, will be a rarity if more severe penalties are not imposed.  I have seized 22 robins, 1 pigeon hawk, 1 crested log-cock, 4 woodpeckers and 1 grosbeak in one camp, at the Lertonia mine, all being prepared for eating.  I have also caught them preparing and eating sea gulls, terns, blue heron, egret and even the bittern.  I have secured 128 convictions since the first of last September.—­(George E. Wood, Game Warden, Hibbing, Minnesota.)

From Robert Page Lincoln, Minneapolis.—­Partridge are waning fast, quail gradually becoming extinct, prairie chickens almost extinct.  Duck-shooting is rare.  The gray squirrel is fast becoming extinct in Minnesota.  Mink are going fast, and fur-bearing animals generally are becoming extinct.  The game is passing so very rapidly that it will soon be a thing of the forgotten past.  The quail are suffering most.  The falling off is amazing, and inconceivable to one who has not looked it up.  Duck-shooting is rare, the clubs are idle for want of birds.  What ducks come down fly high, being harassed coming down from the north.  I consider the southern Minnesota country practically cleaned out.